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List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: About /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
From:       DervishD <raul () pleyades ! net>
Date:       2003-03-02 12:53:15
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    Hi Miles :)

 Miles Bader dixit:
> /var is clearly the right place for this; if /var isn't mounted
> initially, I'd suggest that mount should simply not update any file
> at that point, and the init-script that mounts /var can be
> responsible from propagating information from /proc/mounts to
> /var/whatever.

    In an embedded system I built a time ago, /etc/mtab was first a
symlink to /proc/mounts, but after a while I made it a symlink to
/var/run/mtab. It worked OK, AFAIK.

    Raśl
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